Delroy Lindo

I don't, but I do remember the first time I was othered because of the color of my skin.

And interestingly, I'm writing a memoir right now, plug, plug, plug, that will be out in 2027, and I reference this incident in the book.

I do remember very, very clearly what happened and my utter confusion.

Five.

So I was born in England.

And my mom was a nurse.

I'm Jamaican.

My mom went to England as part of a movement of Caribbean peoples from the Caribbean to England.

And they became known as the Windrush Generation as a result of the boat called the Empire Windrush that transported approximately 300 Jamaican, mostly Jamaican men from the Caribbean to England in June of 1948.

My mom arrived into England in 1951.

I was born very soon thereafter.

And because my mom was studying to be a nurse, they would not allow her to have an infant child with her on campus.

So as a result of that, I was sent to live with a white family in a white working class area of London.

No, no, I lived with them.

I lived with them.

Very loving family, by the way.

I was loved.

I was cared for.

But as a result of living with this family in this all-white neighborhood, I went to an all-white elementary or primary school.

And I was literally the only black child in an all-white school.